Log in or Sign up
  1. inspissate love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To undergo thickening or cause to thicken, as by boiling or evaporation; condense.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To thicken, as a fluid, by evaporation; bring to greater consistence by evaporation.
  2. Thick; inspissated.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To thicken, especially by boiling, evaporation, or condensation; condense.
  2. v. intransitive To become viscous.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation.
  2. adj. Thick or thickened; inspissated.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make viscous or dense
  2. v. become thick or thicker
  3. v. make thick or thicker

Etymologies

  1. From Late Latin īnspissāre, īnspissāt-, to thicken : Latin in-, causative pref.; see in-2 + Latin spissus, thick. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘inspissate’.

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • arby It sounds like it should mean "to piss off". BTW Roget (via Bartleby) says a synonym is incrassate. Jun 27, 2008

  • sera "Letting citizens sue polluters ... would only inspissate the logjam of litigation." (The New York Times, August 5, 1985) Aug 14, 2007

  • reesetee Wow. And then you *eat* it? Feb 21, 2007

  • chained_bear Yeah, sometimes I make white sauce and have to wait for it to inspissate.

    Eeew. That does sound gross. Feb 21, 2007

  • reesetee Indeed! It's on my "Not Quite As Awful As They Sound" list! :-) Feb 16, 2007

  • sionnach it sounds more vulgar than it is, folks! Feb 16, 2007

Tweets

Looking for tweets for inspissate.

‘inspissate’ has been looked up 1636 times, loved by 2 people, added to 41 lists, commented on 6 times, and has a Scrabble score of 12.